Ukraine stepped up its push to stem deadly separatist violence in its easternmost regions as former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused Russia of continuing to unsettle its neighbor.
Insurgents in the Donetsk region city of Mariupol suffered "heavy losses" and two government troops were injured as a planned operation against militants began at 4:50 a.m., Ukraine's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said today on Facebook. Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking to control nations on his borders, according to Clinton.
"He continues to destabilize eastern Ukraine," Clinton told France's Inter radio. The Russian leader's behavior is "not acceptable," she said.
Ukraine's new president, Petro Poroshenko, is struggling to fulfill a pledge to halt the unrest during his first week in office, with peace talks that include Russia so far failing to yield a cease-fire. Ukraine says Russia is allowing fighters to freely cross their shared border, an accusation Putin denies. Russia has two weeks to stop supporting the insurgency or face more sanctions, U.S. President Barack Obama said June 5.
Ukraine's hryvnia, this year's worst-performing currency against the dollar with a 30 percent plunge, was unchanged at 11.7 at 10:50 a.m. in Kiev, the capital, data compiled by Bloomberg showed. The ruble, which has strengthened the most of any emerging-market currency except Colombia's peso in the last month with a 1.5 percent advance, was 0.1 percent weaker.
The operation in Mariupol was "successful," with Ukrainian forces taking control of all the separatists' strongholds, Avakov said. Government troops yesterday battled a convoy of vehicles, including the first reported separatist tanks, after Russia failed to stop them crossing the border, according to the minister.
Putin and Poroshenko spoke yesterday by phone, Russia's Interfax news service reported, citing Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov. Poroshenko informed Putin of his plan to resolve the conflict that spans Donetsk and the neighboring Luhansk region, according to Peskov.
Ukraine's leader ordered the creation of an evacuation corridor on June 10 so civilians can flee fighting that's killed hundreds of people including government soldiers, separatists and civilians. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said his nation will instead provide aid via the separatists.
To contact the reporters on this story: Daria Marchak in Kiev at dmarchak@bloomberg.net; Mark Deen in Paris at markdeen@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Balazs Penz at bpenz@bloomberg.net Andrew Langley, Leon Mangasarian
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